Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, had gone outside committee channels to inform the president that the U.S. intelligence community had gathered information on members of Trump’s transition team.

According to The Daily Caller, Camerota attempted to trick Gowdy into talking about Russia’s alleged interference with the 2016 presidential election, in an effort to connect it with Nunes’ briefing of Trump.

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“What are these connections? What are these ties between the Trump campaign, the Trump team and Russia? So, how are you getting to the bottom of that?” Camerota asked.

“Two separate lines of inquiry,” Gowdy responded. “What Devin went to the White House about has nothing to do with Russia, so put that in a separate track. I was ready yesterday to start interviewing witnesses, all of them.”

“I want to sit down with (Democrat Rep.) Adam Schiff and say, ‘Adam, give me your list of witnesses. Let’s do it together. Let’s interview them together,'” he continued. “We’re both former federal prosecutors. Let’s find the facts and the truth together,” he told the news anchor.

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“’Give me your witness list. I’ll give you mine and let’s start doing it in the form that is most conducive for gathering the most amount of information.’”

Gowdy then asked Camerota not to confuse the Russia investigation with Nunes’ White House visit, saying that the “trip to the White House that Devin took had nothing to do with Russia, let’s don’t conflate the trip with the investigation.”